Richard Nixon said...

Our success in reducing our involvement in Vietnam by 480,000 men before May 1, 1972, and comparable materiel reductions will help enable us for the first time---to spend more in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare than we spend in the Department of Defense.

Context

Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1973.

01/23/1972

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